Vocabulary Biome: A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests.
DVD player. A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some manufacturers originally announced that DVD players would be available as early as the middle of 1996. These predictions were woefully optimistic.
1 VLC is one of the most popular video players, and can play DVDs and many Blu-Ray discs. You can download VLC for free from videolan.org/vlc. VLC is an open-source player, and does not contain any advertisements or spyware.  MPC-HC (Media Player Classic) is another popular third-party media player.